BERLIN — Berliners on Sunday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin in the post-World War II years with a big party at the former Tempelhof ...
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The Soviet Union cut off Berlin in 1948 and turned a besieged city into a Cold War flashpoint
When the Soviet Union sealed off West Berlin in June 1948, more than 2 million people were suddenly cut off from food, fuel, ...
The Reporter's Thomas F. Mulvoy, Jr. talks with Dorchester native Charles Isberg, who in his 99th year, recalls ‘the C-47s ...
As teenage residents of West Berlin during what many consider to be the first battle of the Cold War, Guenther and Gisela Petzold never knew how close the Berlin Airlift came to collapsing. It wasn't ...
Ian Buruma was drawn to wartime Berlin because his father, a Dutchman was pressed into factory work there from 1943 to 1945 ...
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Berlin Airlift: how a city was saved from starvation
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World War III almost happened three years after World War II. Germany had been divided into four sections (governed by the US, Soviet Union, British and French), and the capital city of Berlin, deep ...
Historian Pearson (Berlin) takes an illuminating up-close look at the Berlin Airlift and the kicking off of the Cold War. The common narrative goes that on June 28, 1949, Berlin—sliced into quadrants ...
BERLIN -- Berlin paid tribute Tuesday to veterans of the 1948-49 Berlin Airlift in which the Western allies flew vital supplies into West Berlin, a key Cold War moment that forced the Soviets to lift ...
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